Leadership Day - Community Service
To require all students attending public schools to preform community service.
Pro
Con
Helps the community
pressure may turn kids away from future involvement
Students learn responsibility
May not find it meaningful because they have no desire to do it
New experiences
Distraction from academic classes
Grows them into good adults.
Take away time for school and other activities.
ORC 3313.605 (community service education program)
is reccomended by the Dept. of Education.
Too much involvement/overloading themselves with activites or homework to do.
Instills good values in people
students who participate in school required community service have a 22% more of a chance of graduating from college and will improve their Reading, Math, Science and History scores.
Similarly, students who performed voluntary community service were 19 percentage points more likely to graduate from college than those that did not.
To require all students attending public schools to preform community service.
is reccomended by the Dept. of Education.
Similarly, students who performed voluntary community service were 19 percentage points more likely to graduate from college than those that did not.